Christmas In Cambodia Essay Contest
Tell Us About YOUR Christmas In Cambodia
Have you ever experienced a life-changing event that never actually occurred? Was your personal "Road To Damascus," something you cut and paste out of a Martin Sheen movie, a Joseph Conrad novel or maybe even a Martin Sheen movie based on a Joseph Conrad novel? Does the story of this particular life changing event not only make you look brave and heroic, but your rivals look callow and criminal by comparison?
Do you think you can recite your tale in a booming voice echoing with righteous indignation or even with pitiable intensity while a credulous film starlet plays with your hair? If so, you might be the next winner of the Christmas in Cambodia Essay Contest.
Contest Rules:
1.Your story must not be true and should of course be written in the "first person."
2. You must explain how the experience described in your made-up-story changed your life.
3. Your story must include at least one important detail that is provably false. i.e. "and it was all Dick Nixon’s fault" even though Nixon wasn’t president at the time etc.
4. You must be the story’s only hero as well as its only victim
5. You must use the word "seared" two times in succession.
If you think you got what it fakes, send your Christmas In Cambodia story to:
Christmas In Cambodia Essay Contest
c/o John Kerry for President
Post Office Box 77247 Suite 700 Washington, DC 20003
Attention: Tawana Brawley
Entries must be postmarked no later than November 2, 2004.